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Choose your voice

Production Year : 2005

Language : English

Local Number : Sch

Too close to home

book

Author : Miller, Frieda

Production Year : 2003

Language : English

Local Number : Sch

קשר

Production Year : 2003

Language : Hebrew

Local Number : Sch

Nazi antisemitism and Jewish legal self-defense 

book

"One of the first to provide a socio-legal comparative history of under-studied or ignored Jewish attempts in the 1930s "Anglosphere" to counter the rise in fascist and Nazi antisemitism, this book examines the ways in which Jewish individuals and organized communal bodies in the mid-to-late 1930s sought to counter this increasing antisemitic violence, physical and verbal, by using the law against their fascist and Nazi attackers. This is the first study to explore how Jews in these countries organized themselves, brought their oppressors to court, while seeking to convince their governments that an attack...

Author : Fraser, David

Production Year : 2024

Language : English

Local Number : 2024-1498

Ace’s ashes

book

"A novel memoir about the top secret radar project that won World War Two, about the Canadians who liberated The Netherlands (including the concentration camp that held Anne Frank), the race riot at Christie Pits in Toronto, about recovering from the war and TB at a sanitarium that was a Nazi P.o.W. Camp and would be a Jewish resort in Muskoka".

Author : Avery, Martin

Production Year : 2009

Language : English

Local Number : 2021-4176

The Blue Shirts

book

"While Adolf Hitler was seizing power in Germany, Adrien Arcand was laying the foundations in Quebec for his Parti national social chrétien. The Blue Shirts, as its members were called, wore a military uniform and prominently displayed the swastika. Arcand saw Jewish conspiracy wherever he turned and his views resonated with his followers who, like him, sought a scapegoat for all the ills eroding society. Even after his imprisonment during the Second World War, the fanatical Adrien Arcand continued his correspondence with those on the frontlines of anti-semitism. Until his death in 1967, he pursued his campaign...

Author : Theoret, Hugues

Production Year : 2017

Language : English

Local Number : 2021-0686

Anti-semitism and the MS St. Louis

book

"Prior to the Second World War, Canada's Jewish community was well established in many cities, including Toronto, Montreal and Winnipeg. As war grew closer, anti-Semitism across Europe was increasing. Hitler's Nazis were spreading hatred and violence towards Jews across Germany. At first, Jews were allowed to leave Germany and thousands escaped to save themselves and their families. Then countries around the world closed their doors to Jewish refugees. In 1939, the MS St. Louis sailed for Cuba with nearly a thousand Jewish men, women, and children looking for safety. They were turned away by Cuba, then the US....

Author : Arato, Rona

Production Year : 2020

Language : English

Local Number : 2021-1331F

A reluctant welcome for Jewish people

book

"The positions held by Canada’s most intellectual French-language daily, Le Devoir, with respect to the Montréal Jewish community and Judaism more generally have been one of the most discussed historiographical topics in Canadian Jewish history. A number of works written by Anglophone authors cite Le Devoir as typical of French Canada’s ideological defensiveness during the 1930s and its inclination to adopt a hostile position towards Jews. However, until now, no serious analyses existed supporting or disproving this thesis. That is precisely the task undertaken by Pierre Anctil in his exhaustive analysis...

Author : Anctil, Pierre

Production Year : 2019

Language : English

Local Number : 2020-2231

The cure for hate

book

Author : Mcaleer, Tony

Production Year : 2019

Language : English

Local Number : 2020-2127

Right-wing extremism in Canada

book

"This book comprehensively examines right-wing extremism (RWE) in Canada, discussing the lengthy history of violence and distribution, ideological bases, actions, organizational capacity and connectivity of these extremist groups. It explores the current landscape, the factors that give rise to and minimise these extremist groups, strategies for countering these groups, and the emergence of the 'Alt-Right'. It draws on interviews with law enforcement officials, community activists, and current and former right-wing activists to inform and offer practical advice, paired with analyses of open source intelligence...

Author : Perry, Barbara

Production Year : 2019

Language : English

Local Number : 2019-3544

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